Course: BIO 1134 GENERAL BIOLOGY II (Majors)

Subject: Biological Science

Prerequisites: BIO 1124

Credits: 4 CREDITS

Description: This second course in the General Biology series for majors in the biological sciences
and related fields, takes organismal approach to studying bacterial, plant and animal
diversity, and relates how various morphological features function. A discussion of
the scientific method, logical (deductive) reasoning, hypothesis testing and some
common fallacies and misconceptions that cloud scientific explanations of the natural
world are included. Students discuss Darwinian natural selection as a mechanism for
evolutionary change with emphasis on systematics in order to understand evolutionary
relationships between the major classes of plants and animals. Laboratory work, an
integral and required part of the course, includes a variety of dissections and hypothesis
testing exercises.